Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
In a striking, bold and ambitious new production, triple Olivier Award-winner Timothy Sheader (Best Musical Revival 2010, 2011, 2012) adds a contemporary twist to this powerful musical.
As the strains of ragtime music are heard on an old record player, a father tells his son a story; a story of hope set at the turn of the 20th century; of a Harlem pianist, a white middle-class family and a Latvian immigrant, whose dreams of a better world shape their destiny.
‘Visually imposing’ (Evening Standard) and ‘staged with brilliance’ (Guardian).
Performed by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York.
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“three-time Olivier winner Timothy Sheader has raised the artistic bar... Ragtime is the most ambitious production yet” “an impressive spectacle”
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“Sheader’s coup is to combine the period setting with a prologue set in a junkyard in present day America... the working crane dominates Jon Bausor’s striking design”
Evening Standard
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CREATIVE TEAM
- Pippa Ailion CDG – Casting Director
- Jon Bausor – Set Designer
- Fiona Dunn – Assistant Director
- James Farncombe – Lighting Designer
- Javier de Frutos – Choreographer
- Laura Hopkins – Costume Designer
- Barbara Houseman – Voice & Text Coach
- Majella Hurley – Dialect Coach
- Nick Lidster – Sound Designer
- Nigel Lilley – Musical Director
- Nuno Silva – Assistant Choreographer
- Tim Sheader – Director
- Ellen Stewart – Assistant Designer
- Marcus Tilt – Assistant Musical Director
- Chris Walker – Musical Director
- Kate Waters – Fight Director
- Jack Williams – Associate Lighting Designer
CREATIVE TEAM
- Jamal Andreas – Ensemble
- Stephane Anelli – Ensemble
- Rolan Bell – Coalhouse Walker
- David Birrell – Father
- Louise Bowden – Ensemble
- Katie Brayben – Evelyn Nesbitt
- Tamsin Carroll – Emma Goldman
- Anthony Clegg – J.P Morgan
- Rosalie Craig – Mother
- Hayley Gallivan – Ensemble
- Shimi Goodman – Ensemble
- Harry Hepple – Younger Brother
- Waylon Jacobs – Ensemble
- Kurt Kansley – Ensemble
- Claudia Kariuki – Sarah
- Joshua Lacey – Willie Conklin
- Mireia Mambo-Bokele – Ensemble
- John Marquez – Tateh
- Sandra Marvin – Ensemble
- Sophie Nomvete – Booker T.Washington
- Corinna Powlesland – Ensemble
- Caroline Rovina – Ensemble
- Carl Sanderson – Henry Ford
- Jo Servi – Grandfather
- Lucy St Louis – Ensemble
- Tom Woods – Ensemble
- Fin Banks, Rory Fraser and Ewan Harris – Little Boy
- Lily Burgering, Lila Heller and Oriana Pooles – Little Girl
